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2. USS Silversides (SSN-679) - Wikipedia

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   The contract to build Silversides was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 25 June 1968 and her keel was laid down on 13 October 1969. She was launched on 4 June 1971, sponsored by Mrs. John H. Chafee , wife of then- Secretary of the Navy John H. Chafee (1922–1999), and commissioned ...

3. USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) - Wikipedia

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   BQS-4 sonar [1] Armament. 4 × 21 in (530 mm) Mark 65 torpedo tubes with Mark 113 firecontrol system, [1] for Mark 48 torpedoes. 16 × vertical tubes for Polaris or Poseidon ballistic missiles. USS Lafayette (SSBN-616), the lead ship of her class of ballistic missile submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named to honor ...

4. Fore River Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   Fore River Shipyard was a shipyard owned by General Dynamics Corporation located on Weymouth Fore River in Braintree and Quincy, Massachusetts. It began operations in 1883 in Braintree, and moved to its final location on Quincy Point in 1901. In 1913, it was purchased by Bethlehem Steel, and later transferred to Bethlehem Shipbuilding ...

5. USS Ohio (SSGN-726) - Wikipedia

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   USS Ohio (SSBN-726/SSGN-726), the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), is the fourth vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. state of Ohio. She was commissioned with the hull designation of SSBN-726, and with her conversion to a guided missile submarine she was re-designated SSGN ...

6. USS L. Y. Spear - Wikipedia

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   She had the capability to provide logistic and technical support for as many as 12 submarines and service four of them alongside simultaneously. L. Y. Spear was decommissioned on 6 September 1996 and struck from the Navy Register on 3 May 1999. She was berthed at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, from 1999 till 2010.

7. John Philip Holland - Wikipedia

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   Sources. John Philip Holland, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998 International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 86 under General Dynamics/Electric Boat Corporation, July 2007, St. James Press/Thomposon Gale Group, pp. 136–139